Word: 31st
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...Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was stripped of hereditary power going back 2,500 years and trundled off to house arrest by a military junta...
...Sombres Vacances (Gloomy Vacation) -is being shot, but Actress Catherine Deneuve had cause for celebration last week anyway. Abandoning the cameras and donning coats, Deneuve, Actors Claude Brasseur and Jean-Louis Trintignant and the film's company broke out caviar and champagne in honor of Deneuve's 31st birthday. Then the star settled down to read a batch of congratulatory telegrams. Among them was a sign of a hard-working actress's lot: telegraphed greetings from her children, Christian, 11, son of Director Roger Vadim, and Chiara, 2, daughter of Actor Marcello Mastroianni...
...best-known sports personalities were, in order: Retired Baseball Star Willie Mays, Namath and ex-Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali. But when asked which athlete's endorsements they would trust most, the men ranked Mays 31st, Namath 156th and Ali 190th. Nelson Research concluded that an athlete's potential success as an endorser depends not on his skill or fame but on his "likeability" by the public...
Monday's game against the University of Massachusetts didn't quite draw any phone calls from the White House as Harvard won 5-4, but it was a record breaking victory for the Crimson, their 31st in a single season. The previous record was set by last year's squad. Harvard's baseball squad is not the only the winningest in the history of the sport here but it is also the Eastern Collegiate Baseball League champion and the winner of the Greater Boston League, going away...
...Cavin and Scott Johnson placed 31st and 32nd in the combined Alpine standings for the weekend by placing in both the slalom and the giant slalom...